Limited Resequencing for Mixed Models with Multiple Objectives
Patrick R. McMullen
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DOI: 10.4236/ajor.2011.14025   PDF    HTML     5,661 Downloads   8,597 Views   Citations

Abstract

This research presents a problem relevant to production scheduling for mixed models – production schedules that contain several unique items, but each unique item may have multiple units that require processing. The presented research details a variant of this problem where, over multiple processes, resequencing is permitted to a small degree so as to exploit efficiencies with the intent of optimizing the objectives of required set-ups and parts usage rate via an efficient frontier. The problem is combinatorial in nature. Enumeration is used on a variety of test problems from the literature, and a search heuristic is used to compare optimal solutions with heuristic based solutions. Experimentation shows that the heuristic solutions approach optimality, but with opportunities for improvement.

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P. McMullen, "Limited Resequencing for Mixed Models with Multiple Objectives," American Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 1 No. 4, 2011, pp. 220-228. doi: 10.4236/ajor.2011.14025.

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